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President Xi Jinping's 2024 New Year message
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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"Announced plans (but didn't complete them, and in many cases like the CHIPS Act didn't even divest funding for them)"
"Took action to protect abortion (despite the Biden administration overseeing the single greatest step backwards in abortion access in US history)"
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In one corner a country were dissent is stomped out with extreme prejudice and political decisions are pushed through speedily and without fuzz regardless of the quality of the idea.
In the other corner a country in the middle the most politically turbulent period of the last 100 years. Where every attempt at pushing any legislation or decision through is met with intense pushback and stalling measures.
Another important aspect here is that progress is alot easier when you're one step behind and have someone to blaze the trail and give inspiration. It will be interesting to see if China can actually drive technology forward and be the trailblazers once they're fully caught up in the coming years which they're on target for.
Blackshirts and Reds is essential reading in this day and age. So many people side with nazis without even realizing it.
I agree with the sentiment, though not directed at my post since I'm not disparaging China for their success. I'm merely trying to add nauance. You started the comparison, you made a point of beating down on what Biden (the closest analog to Xi Jin Ping) posted.
Like literally every nation and person on this blue planet China does some good and some bad. I tend to think what they do badly is more important, human rights and political freedom ranks very high to me, and I know that is because I'm steeped in western culture and morals. And I'm absolutely not saying the US are poster boys for those issues, if you check my post history I shit heavily on the US for their violations like supporting Israel virtually unconditionally or their butchering of the MENA region throughout the last 2 decades.
China has, coincidentally after they moved a few pinholes away from "hardcore" communism, raised hundreds of millions of people (if not a billion by now) out of poverty, directly in their own country and indirectly in neighbouring nations. That is commendable. They also serve as a balance to US hegemony which I value, we can't have one nation that effectively could conquer all others, democracy or not it only takes one Hitler to raise to power in such a nation for the world to crumble, and we can't allow that.
So don't try to deflect my criticism by misconstruing my comment as unnuanced china bashing.